Academic Background
_2016: Master in Cinema - Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
_2004: Bachelor in Cinema - Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
_2003: ESEC, Paris (École Supérieure libre d’Études Cinématographiques)
Career
_Since 2011: film director
_Since 2007: festival programmer
_Since 2004: film editor
Films/Awards
Films as director
_2022: The Old, The New and The Other (15min, doc)
_2019: Welcome Home (5min, doc)
_2016: 음유시인 The Troubled Troubadour (23min, fiction, co-directed with Forest Ian Etsler, 24 festival selections including: Seoul Independent Film Festival, Mise-en-scene Short Film Festival, Jecheon International Music & Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival…)
_2016: Tetsu Kono’s crazy routine (16min30, doc, co-directed with Forest Ian Etsler, 4 festival selections: Duhok International Film Festival, Korean American Film Festival in New York, Festival Film Dokumenter, Korea International Expat Film Festival)
_2014: 동心 One-minded (20min, fiction, co-directed with Forest Ian Etsler, 30 festival selections including: Seoul Independent Film Festival, São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Leeds International Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival…)
_2014: The Urban Suite (12min30, doc, co-directed with Forest Ian Etsler, 9 festival selections including: Incheon Diaspora Film Festival, Interfilm Berlin, Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, AmérAsia Montréal Film Festival…)
_2013: Working on ‘Work 2’ (13min25, doc)
_2013: Pas de deux (5min, videodance)
_2012: Flight Mode (7min30, fiction, co-directed with Nigel D’sa)
_2012: The Small Escape (2min15, fiction)
_2011: Paris Postcards (3x 1min, music videoclips)
Awards
_2019: 명예시민 Citizen of Honor, Busan Metropolitan City
_2016: Mitrani Award, FIPA Biarritz (for One-minded)
_2015: Gold Plaque Live Action Short, Chicago International Film Festival (for One-minded)
Festivals
_Since 2012: Busan International Short Film Festival, programmer
_2021~2022: Jeonju International Short Film Festival, programmer
_2019~2022: Short Film Conference, board member
_2014~2020: Jeju French Film Festival, programmer
_2007~2018: Rencontres Cinématographiques de Cavaillon, workshop supervisor
_2014~2019: Seoul International Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival, selection committee
_2017~2019: Slamdance Film Festival, programmer
_2020: Shnit Worldwide Film Festival, selection committee
_Jury member: Seoul International Senior Film Festival 2019/2020, Minimalen Kortfilmfestival 2019, Kaohsiung Film Festival 2018, Shorts That Are Not Pants 2018, Bogota Short Film Festival 2020, Festival Regard - Saguenay International Short Film Festival 2021, Viddsee Juree Indonesia 2021, Seoul International Pride Film Festival 2021, Minikino Film Week - Bali International Short Film Festival 2023, Festival Film Dokumenter 2024
Publications
_2024.09: The Korean Journal of Digital Moving Image vol.21 n.2 (Online Video Analysis Essay as Post-Cinematic Praxis): https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART003115383
_2022.01: Debaser magazine (BIFF founder's life celebrated in new biopic): https://debasermagazine.com/onscreen/jiseok-2022
_2021.12.31: Journal of Multimedia Information System vol.8 n.4 (3D Filmmaking for User-Selective UHD Stereoscopic Media System: A Case Study on the Film "The Old, The New and The Other"): http://www.jmis.org/archive/view_article?pid=jmis-8-4-277
_2021.01: Short Film Studies vol.11 n.1 (La Vis, dir. Didier Flamand)
_2019.09: L’Avant-Scène Cinéma n.665 (Peppermint Candy, dir. Lee Chang-dong)
_2019~2022: Busan Beat magazine, contributing writer
_since 2009: BullesDeCulture.com, regular writer